Pavilion Z

There's not much to say about Pavilion Z of the Brno Exhibition Centre except that it looks like a big volume control dial. At this size it will presumably go up to 11. Thanks: Lukáš N.

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Friday, 4th November 2005

Map Updates

Fans of GGSS Integrated maps will be pleased to know they now work much better. The betterness includes... Automatic zooming to the bounds of a post's or category's map points. Default satellite mode. Logical category ordering in the selection drop…

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Friday, 4th November 2005

Red Mud Dam

Near Gladstone in Queensland, Australia is a gigantic, bright-orange lake known as Red Mud Dam. Although the explanations I found were a little confusing, it seems that the colouring is due to residue formed through the process of extracting aluminium…

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Friday, 4th November 2005

Chess Anyone?

Here's the perfect location in northern Idaho for the world's largest game of chess. I imagine that pieces to fit the board might set you back a bit though... Thanks to DDA and Brad.

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Friday, 4th November 2005

Iceberg, Dead Ahead!

Some pretty spectacular icebergs here off the coast of Greenland. Some of the larger ones are at least 5 miles across. Thanks: Juha Vierinen

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Thursday, 3rd November 2005

Playground World Map

Here's yet another world map on Google Maps, this time in what looks like a school playground, and for once the map is the right way up! Thanks again to Kevin.

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Thursday, 3rd November 2005

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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